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SFWA reports some changes in the jury for the John W Campbell Memorial Award . Paul Di Filippo and Sheila Finch join the jury while Paul A. Carter retires.
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Over at the World SF News blog Lavie Tidhar questions the “world” credentials of various science fiction awards and events.
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Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book has won yet another major award: the Booktrust Teenage Prize (won last year by Patrick Ness’s The Knife of Never Letting Go ). At The Guardian Michelle Pauli describes Gaiman’s book as being “buried under awards” although, as Neil ...
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The very observant Jeff Prucher has altered us to even more awards given out at Utopiales. They are as follows:
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Le Grand Prix du Jury : ex-aequo : Moon , Duncan Jones and The Clone returns home , Kanji Nakajima
Le Prix Sci Fi du public : Moon , Duncan Jones
Le Prix Européen du ...
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Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book continues to pile up award wins. This time it has been granted the Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla Award by the Wisonsin Library Association.
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We have one more award announcement from Utopiales (thanks to Aliette de Bodard in whose con report we found the information). The prestigious €3000 Prix Européen Utopiales des Pays de la Loire was awarded to Le Déchronologue by Stéphane Beauverger (La Volte), the same book that won Best Novel ...
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It has been a busy week or so in Spain. Last weekend we had the Xatafi-Cyberdark Awards . During the week we had the Premios Nocte . And now here are the winners of the Spanish fan-voted awards, the Premios Ignotus:
Best Novel : Día de Perros ( Day of the Dogs ), David Jasso (Ed. Hegemón)
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Paul Cornell has run a poll asking people which TV series will feature in next year’s Best Dramatic Production: Short Form Hugo. You can see the results on his blog . The top 5 candidates were: Doctor Who , Dollhouse , Lost , True Blood , Fringe . Of course a series can get one nominee, ...
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Thanks to Tanya Tynjälä for alerting us to a brand new set of Spanish language awards. The Premios Nocte are presented by the Asociación Española de Escritores de Terror (Spanish Association of Horror Writers) and this is their very first year. These awards are therefore for works published ...
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This award was announced at Utopiales over the weekend. It is named for one of the pen names of French author Héliane Taïeb (who also wrote as Gilles Thomas). The award is for a science fiction or fantasy novel. Further information is available (in French) on Wikipedia , and slightly dodgily ...
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Thanks to Tero Ykspetäjä we have a couple of Finnish awards to announce.
Firstly the Kuvastaja award, which is for fantasy written originally in Finnish, went to Nainen ja Kuningas ( The Woman and The King ) by Anni Nupponen. The book was apparently self-published.
In addition two fantasy ...
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In today’s Guardian Book Blog is the long list for the year’s Impac Prize (worth a cool €100,000). The nominees include Ursula K. LeGuin, Neal Stephenson, Jeffrey Ford and Zoran Živkovi?.
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The jury for the 2010 World Fantasy Awards will be: Greg Ketter, Kelly Link, Jim Minz, Jurgen Snoeren and Gary K. Wolfe.
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Many thanks to everyone who joined us for
our live coverage of the award ceremony. Here are
the award winners. Lifetime Achievement : Ellen Asher & Jane Yolen Best Novel (tie) : The Shadow Year , Jeffrey Ford (Morrow) & Tender Morsels ...
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World Fantasy Award Winners 2009
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Alberto García-Teresa writes with the results of the
2010 Xatafi-Cyberdark Awards. Spanish Language Long Form Winners :
El mapa del tiempo ( The Map of Time ), Félix J. Palma (Algaida) and El hermano de las moscas , Jon Bilbao (Salto de página) ...
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The results are in from Utopiales. Here are
the 2010 winners of Les Grands Prix de l’Imaginaire.
French Language Novel : Le Déchronologue , Stéphane Beauverger (La Volte) Translated Novel : Roi du matin, reine du jour ( King of Morning, ...
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One of the things that became embarrassingly obvious to us in running this web site is that many countries around the world have awards for SF&F fiction translated into their local language, but there was no award for such works translated into English. That has now changed. At World ...
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The World Fantasy Awards ceremony takes place on Sunday Nov. 1st. We will be online from about 2:15pm over at the official World Fantasy web site . Please join us.
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At World Fantasy last night Ann and Jeff VanderMeer presented the first ever Last Drink Bird Head Awards, which Jeff explains here . We did live coverage of the ceremony over at ConReporter.com. The winners were:
Gentle Advocacy : K. Tempest Bradford
Tireless Energy : Rina Weisman
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